Augie Nieto, Author, T. R. Pearson, Author, Mitch Albom, Foreword by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $21 (205p) ISBN 978-1-59691-468-1
A business mastermind who helped revolutionize the personal fitness industry, Nieto recounts his struggles with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). Having pushed for cardiovascular equipment in gyms across the country, Nieto himself was a...
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Warren Littlefield with T.R. Pearson. Doubleday, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-53374-4
Former NBC Entertainment president Littlefield, who now runs his own TV production company, recalls, “When I was running NBC Entertainment, the shows that made our schedule were my choices, and I didn’t ask approval of anyone.” To detail the...
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T. R. Pearson, Author . Viking $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-670-03035-4
Acclaimed for his idiosyncratic prose and picaresque colloquialisms—and his irreverent but brilliantly insightful portrayals of the smalltown denizens of backwater North Carolina and Virginia—Pearson revisits sad but savvy deputy...
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T. R. Pearson, Author . Viking $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-03238-9
Pearson treads his trademark turf but seems a trifle off stride in this Southern gothic romp set in smalltown Virginia. Taking his leave of Sheriff Ray Tatum and Tatum's ranger girlfriend, Kit Carson (the heroes of Blue Ridge and Polar), Pearson
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T. R. Pearson, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (295p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6463-1
Louis Benfield is back and grown up (more or less) in this hilarious if meandering tale of a modern-day Southern slacker, the sequel to A Short History of a Small Place
. The book follows Louis as he moves to New York City from Neely, N.C., to start
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T. R. Pearson, Author . Crown $24.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-307-33594-4
In 1953, the 60-year-old Willis sailed a homemade balsa-wood raft over 4,000 miles across the Pacific from Peru to American Samoa, accompanied only by a cat and a foul-mouthed parrot. Novelist Pearson (Glad News of the Natural World
) gives a...
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T. R. Pearson, Author Holt McDougal $13 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3187-4
In Pearson's breakthrough sixth novel, a policeman's serene life in a small Southern town is disrupted by a fellow cop's murder. (May)
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T. R. Pearson, Author Viking Books $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-89269-3
The talented Pearson has moved away from the zany Southern milieu of A Short History of a Small Place and other novels, but his work still resonates with whip-sharp dark humor. In this insightful, sardonic tale of self-discovery and self-deceit, two
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T. R. Pearson, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-61738-7
In his third installment (after A Short History of a Small Place and Off for the Sweet Hereafter of hilarious adventures narrated by young Louis Benfield of Neely, N.C., Pearson again spins a rollicking yarn with somber undertones and reveals...
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T. R. Pearson, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09480-5
Even Pearson's humming, pitch-perfect prose can't lift this sluggish, overburdened plot off the ground in its Southern, deep-rural setting. Caught in the cab of his skidder, Donnie Huff drowns when the walnut tree he's dragging downhill slips into...
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T. R. Pearson, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63992-1
As in his previous works ( A Short History of A Small Place , etc.) Pearson's latest Southern comic novel finds its form in digression: there is a story, albeit a slender one, but the book's real substance lies in its anecdotes, detours and wrong...
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T. R. Pearson, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (258p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2200-1
With this breakthrough novel, Pearson offers the best of several fictional worlds. Fans of his work ( A Short History of a Small Place ) will welcome the serpentine, jack-in-the-box literary style that has rocket-launched him to a special planet in...
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